The Republican | John SuchockiHolyoke police officer Loumag Alicea listens to testimony in Holyoke District Court on Monday during a dangerousness hearing on domestic violence charges. He was ultimately held without right to bail.

HOLYOKE – Police Officer Loumag Alicea, accused of battering his wife and putting a gun to her face, was ordered held without right to bail Monday afternoon following a dangerousness hearing in District Court.

Testimony painted a tempestuous off-and-on-again relationship between the two, exacerbated by Alicea’s heavy drinking and his wife’s relationship with two other men during the course of their 14-month marriage.

Included was testimony by Loumag Alicea’s wife, Marilyn M. Alicea, that she had been diagnosed as being HIV-positive in June 2007, was terminally ill with AIDS and that she did not tell her husband until September of this year, when she was sick in the hospital.

Judge Maureen Walsh said testimony during the hearing, which took the better part of the day and featured a number of witnesses, including the accused and his wife “clearly established that the defendant assaulted his wife with a firearm.”

Walsh said she came to that determination even though the case record “clearly establishes that the alleged victim’s credibility in this case is seriously compromised.”

Alicea, a 15-year veteran of the police department, was charged Friday with assault and battery domestic and assault with a dangerous weapon, a handgun, according to police and court documents. Alicea, 43, a city resident, pleaded not guilty in Holyoke District Court on Friday.

Loumag Alicea testified that the news that his wife had AIDS, which she told him while she was sick on her hospital bed, tore him up. “I didn’t know what I was going to do. I thought I was going to pass out,” he said.

The next day, however, Loumag Alicea told his wife that he remained devoted to their marriage,. “You know what?” Loumag Alicea said, recounting that conversation. “I am not going to leave you. I took vows as your husband and I am going to see this through with you.”

Marilyn Alicea said that her husband supported her while she was recuperating. “He stood by my side and would come to visit me in the hospital every day,” she said.

Loumag Alicea testified that his wife, after her hospitalization, went through weeks of rehabilitation at Sandalwood Care and Rehabilitation Center in Oxford.

Doctors told him, Loumag Alicea testified, that his wife suffers from mini-strokes that left her with permanent brain damage “because she let her illness go on so long.”

The charges against Loumag Alicea pertain to two incidents, one of which allegedly occurred on Sept. 15 when he stopped at their home, while working and in uniform. “Loumag put his gun to my face and he said ‘I feel like killing you now’,” Marilyn Alicea said, according to the report.

Marilyn Alicea testified that her husband “shoved me up against the door, my feet weren’t touching the floor and the gun was in my face.”

Loumag Alicea testified, however, that he never threatened his wife and that he was not in possession of his service firearm at the time, that he had left it secured at the station.

“I have threatened my own life but never hers,” he testified.

The second incident allegedly occurred on Sept. 21, when Lougmag Alicea allegedly battered his wife during an argument at their home.

Loumag Alicea testified he was angry about his wife’s infidelity and trying to leave the house when she grabbed him from behind. “I went to get her off, threw my elbow back. She obviously was too close and took it in the eyes. I have never raised a hand to my wife, contrary to what she says,” Loumag Alicea testified.

When assistant district attorney Clarissa Wright asked if she would be feel safe if her husband were to be released, Marilyn Alicea said no “because I am scared of him.”

At the close of Loumag Alicea’s testimony, defense attorney Shana Wilson asked him. “Why do you stay with her?” citing the HIV, her alleged infidelities and other issues.

“Because I love her immensely. If I am infected, we should be together,” Alicea said.

Loumag Alicea testified that he has since twice tested negative for HIV. “I am not out of the woods yet,” he said, adding that doctors have told him that he needs to be tested for another year or so.